SEOPress XML Sitemap

  • Resolved mru2025

    (@mru2025)


    1 year, 10 months ago

    This may seem similar to other posts but it’s not.

    Using SEOPress free version on 2 websites, both on same server. Small site with 15 pages works fine. Larger website (https://www.bookmauritius-villas.com) with 500 + pages having issues with xml sitemap. Same settings on both websites.

    Server inf : NGINX. Buffer size has been increased
    =======
    proxy_buffers 8 16k;
    proxy_buffer_size 32k;
    =======
    Php.ini file set as follows :
    display_errors = On
    max_execution_time = 600
    max_input_time = 600
    max_input_vars = 2000
    memory_limit = 1024M
    post_max_size = 128M
    session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
    session.save_path = “/var/cpanel/php/sessions/ea-php72”
    upload_max_filesize = 128M
    zlib.output_compression = Off
    allow_url_fopen = On
    enable_dl = Off
    file_uploads = On

    Issues :
    1. Generic sitemap https://www.bookmauritius-villas.com/sitemaps.xml is not read by Google Webmaster (Couldn’t fetch). Bing is seeing only 1 url.
    2. Proper sitemap url (https://www.bookmauritius-villas.com/sitemaps/page-sitemap1.xml) also on error on all tools, including validator tool https://www.xml-sitemaps.com which reports « Incorrect http header content-type: “” (expected: “application/xml”) »
    3. Sitemap does not open and eventually generates a 504 error.
    4. Images sitemap is not generated des pite ticked in settings

    Thanks in advance to anyone helping.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    image sitemaps are included in the source code of each sub-sitemap. You can see it visually without looking at the source code.

    Can you try to disable it from SEO, XML sitemaps, Enable Image sitemap please?

    Is this better?

    Please let us know,

    Thanks

    Thread Starter mru2025

    (@mru2025)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Thanks for your response. Did not quite understand the point about image sitemap, since I cannot see what’s in the XML sitemap at https://www.bookmauritius-villas.com/sitemaps/page-sitemap1.xml

    I have ticked-out>saved then ticked again both “Enable XML sitemap” & “Enable images sitemap” and all issues are still there.

    Any other recommendation? Is there any specific setting of NGINX
    Thanks

    Thread Starter mru2025

    (@mru2025)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Rectification: The sitemap finally opened and looks fine; however, still too slow for Google and Bing to accept it.

    There are about 550 URLs. Do you think it is too big?
    Regards

    Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    It should load in few seconds. There might an issue with your server configuration.

    With our incoming update, we will have a big improvement in performance, we hope it will save your issue.

    Thread Starter mru2025

    (@mru2025)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Thanks but it’s unlikely. I have another website with exact same theme on the same server and it works fine.

    In the meantime I have tried pagination and also deactivation of WP Rocket; no change.

    Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Can you list your active plugins please?

    Thread Starter mru2025

    (@mru2025)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Hi Benjamin,

    Here is the list:
    Another Mailchimp Widget
    Classic editor
    Classic Widgets
    Contact Form 7 + Dynamic test extension + Multilingual
    Cookie & consent solution (from Iubenda)
    Create & Assign categories for pages (I know this one is a troublemaker but too late to deactivate as all urls will be changed)
    Duplicate page
    Envato Market (for update of theme)
    Essential Grid
    Header / Footer and post injection
    Master Slider pro
    Really Simple SSL
    Redirection
    Theme essentials (comes with the theme)
    SEOPress
    Shortcoder
    Simple XML Sitemap Generator (downloaded because SEOpress was not generating the sitemaps)
    Sticky menu or anything
    Use Any Font
    Widget Importer / Exporter
    WP Mail SMTP
    WP Rocket
    WP Bakery
    WPML + Media + String translation`

    Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Try to disable Redirection plugin first, then Shortcoder.

    If it still doesn’t work, try to disable all plugins except SEOPress and reactivate them one by one to find the culprit.

    If it doesn’t work with all plugins deactivated, it’s probably something else 🙂

    Thread Starter mru2025

    (@mru2025)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Bonjour Benjamin,

    Just to let you know that the sitemap now works, even without pagination, after having tweaked the .htaccess, updated the server and adding the “location ~ ([^/]*)sitemap(.*)\.x(m|s)l$ {” code.
    Thanks a lot for your support
    Regards
    Bernard

    Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    OK!
    Thank you for this update.

    I close this topic now.

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